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Former schoolmaster Collin Melrose is found dead, but why is he sitting in the wrong chair? And did Lily Klimpton kill herself after her lover's death, or did she die at the hands of another? In Found Dead, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson return to unravel two mysterious tales by the devious Lyn McConchie. Local squire's daughter Miss Bibiana Paget befriends the ailing Collin Melrose, who lives near her family's estate. Melrose does not have long to live, so Miss Bibi isn't shocked when she visits his cottage and discovers him dead. Yet why would a man who couldn't walk unaided be sitting in a chair that was not his favorite, the one he always sat in? Something is very wrong, and Miss Bibi consults Holmes and Watson. Can they untangle the knotted threads of Melrose's past and expose a killer? In their second case, Holmes and Watson visit the Isle of Sheppey to investigate Lily Klimpton's death. Was it suicide, as everyone but her family believes, or was she murdered? And is her death related to that of Alistair Johnson, her erstwhile employer and paramour? Holmes and Watson's investigations uncover a far deeper evil than they first suspected-but can they prevent more deaths and capture those responsible?

Francis Aloysius Finn, owner of the A-Plus Detectives Agency & Famous Detectives School, gets more than he bargained for when Norris Beamer asks Finn to investigate his father's death. Is Viola, Beamer's new step-mother, really a black widow, or did her four elderly husbands die of natural causes? Is one of her neighbors involved? Or her boss? Or someone else… With the help of his Famous Detectives School students and Hilary Kendrake, his temporary secretary, Finn uncovers a deadly scheme of drug-dealing and murder-but will one of them be another victim?

Who wrote that threatening letter? Who beat up Bill Collins? Who stole his suitcase and his letter?"At last," thought they, "we have found the culprit!" They held John Till on the ground, kicking and squirming. Then suddenly, Old Man Paddler came on the scene and they began their search all over with entirely new clues.

An American Naval Tragedy !So shocking was the defeat of American naval forces by the Japanese in Savo Sound, that the American public could not accept the true story until ten years afterward.On Guadalcanal, Marines were moving up the rugged Tenaru River country, ranging for battle and depending on the Navy for cover...On board the flagship McCrawley, Admiral Turner was begging for carrier-based air support that never came...On the bridge of his heavy cruiser Chokai, Admiral Gunichi Mikawa signalled the tropedo fire that opened "The Battle of Savo"...

Volume II includes many of Pope's most celebrated works, such as:The Rape of the Lock: A mock-epic poem that satirizes a petty high-society scandal by comparing it to the epic world of the gods. It's one of Pope's most famous works, known for its wit and use of heroic couplets.Eloisa to Abelard: A verse epistle that explores the tragic romance between Eloisa (Héloïse) and her teacher Abelard. The poem is rich in emotional intensity and showcases Pope's ability to convey deep feelings.The Dunciad: A satirical poem that criticizes the decline of literature and culture in Britain. It targets various poets, critics, and publishers whom Pope considered to be dull or incompetent.Epistles to Several Persons (Moral Essays): A series of poems that discuss moral and philosophical topics, including the nature of man, the pursuit of happiness, and the roles of women in society.

Volume I of Alexander Pope's Poetical Works includes some of his early and influential writings. Here are some notable works often included in this volume:Pastorals: These are among Pope's earliest published poems, written in the pastoral tradition, celebrating the idealized simplicity and beauty of rural life.An Essay on Criticism: A didactic poem that offers guidance on literary criticism and poetic taste. It includes some of Pope's most famous lines, such as "To err is human, to forgive divine."Windsor Forest: A poem celebrating the beauty of the English countryside and the peace following the Treaty of Utrecht. It reflects Pope's mastery of the descriptive and lyrical style.The Temple of Fame: A poem inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame. It explores themes of ambition and the quest for immortality through artistic achievement.The Messiah: A sacred eclogue imitating Virgil's fourth Eclogue, it prophesies the coming of a savior, blending classical and Christian imagery.Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day: A poem celebrating the power of music, written for the feast day of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians.

It's October 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. High schooler Charlie Gundy wonders if there will be a tomorrow for him to wake up to. When he sees his father standing in the rainy backyard with hammer and saw, Charlie can't imagine what his father is building. As Charlie negotiates the ups and downs of teenage life and encounters the colorful characters of early science fiction fandom, his father's creations grow larger and larger: two wooden starships, looming over the family home. What is his father going to do with these starships? After all, they'll never fly… Or will they? Long-time science fiction master Gordon Eklund takes you on an unforgettable journey to the past… and future!

Lansen was a man who wanted his land and his woman on the terms he laid down.When Matthew Kincaid and his hired guns tried to get him to settle for less, Lansen decided to stop talking...Blood started to flow -- blood that washed down the valley, turning it into a long night of terror and death...

Larry McCall inched his way up to the lighted window. Inside, outlaw Ross Doyle talked excitedly with his henchmen. Suddenly he slammed his fist on the table."That damned polecat's escaped again?" He pushed his chair from the table and headed for the door. "Come on, fellas, we got to move fast!"Larry faded into the darkness outside. The hunt for him was on...

Hagar had been a drifter. Self-reliant and traveling alone. Looking for the main chance that hadn't come along.The strip of land high in the Laramies made a difference. The strip of land the gamblers and politicians of Wyoming were ready to kill him for.At last, Hagar knew what he wanted. He wanted that land and he wanted beautiful Sherry Bannister and he'd blast them all to hell if they blocked his way.

That sea-going Jeff Tyler aboard his 85-foot "Loafalong" sights a life-raft with a dead boy and an almost-dead girl drifting on the Caribbean. A swift-moving story that flows from Florida waters to New Orleans -- with a murder in every mile and a girl in every port. The perfect Jeff Tyler story, packed with rough, violent action against corruption, and tender loving care against seduction.

When Aggie Mundeen accompanies San Antonio Detective Sam Vanderhoven on a weekend getaway to Lake Placid, she thinks it's going to be fun in the sun. What could be better than caretaking a friend's cottage on the Guadalupe River in Central Texas? Never mind that Sam intends to discretely investigate the theft of that friend's boat...Unfortunately, the weather has plans of its own. Buckets of rain and gusting winds roil the lake, turning the peaceful Guadalupe into an angry, raging river. As darkness descends, lightning reveals two people arguing on a dock across the river. When lightning flashes again, they are gone. Did Aggie and Sam witness an accident? A drowning? A murder?The Plunge sweeps readers along with the threat of looming disaster, helpless before an untamable force, where sleuthing takes a back seat to survival...Nancy G. West is an award-winning suspense author and the creator of the Aggie Mundeen Mysteries. Every book in the series has either won or been nominated for an award. The Plunge launches Aggie in a new direction.

What do Superman, Gertrude Stein, the Beatles, Lord Shiva, the Wizard of Oz, and Hermione Granger have in common? They share essential characteristics with iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, explored in Sherlock Holmes is Like: Sixty Comparisons for an Incomparable Character.In his introduction, editor Christopher Redmond says "The essays in this collection are not an analysis of what Sherlock Holmes is like (brilliant, unsociable, hawk-nosed) but rather case studies of whom he can be said to be like. Their sixty suggestions range across centuries and continents, and include figures from belief and legend as well as from contemporary fiction and film. Some are household names, while others will be unknown to nearly all readers. In each case, while the author has been encouraged to provide an introduction to the character in question, the ultimate purpose of the comparison is to shed light on some aspect of the character of Sherlock Holmes, whose complexities are far from exhausted more than 130 years after he was introduced to a curious readership."

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most recognizable-and most parodied-names in western literature. Bill Mason, BSI, collects and annotates these parody names, from the first one that appeared in 1891, to the present day. As Mason says in his introduction: One of the great aspects of Sherlock Holmes is the fact that, just as the character himself is subject to endless variation, so is his name. Ellery Queen noted that the name itself "is particularly susceptible to the twistings and mis-shapenings of burlesque minded authors." Surely, Arthur Conan Doyle, who struggled a little with what he was going to call his detective hero, could not have known just how perfect the name he finally selected-Sherlock Holmes-would be for parody, for rhyme, for the transposing of letters and sounds, for the substitution of suggestive words in the name of a comic character. Mason's listings are an invaluable resource for the Holmesian scholar, researcher, or for those interested in whiling away a few hours with a delightful and chuckle-inspiring volume.

Weirdbook returns with another jam-packed issue full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are:•Iconoclasm, by Adrian Cole•Have a Crappy Halloween, by Franklyn Searight•Early Snow, by Samson Stormcrow Hayes•The Dollhouse, by Glynn Owen Barrass•Elle a Vu un Loup, by Loren Rhoads•Bringing the Bodies Home, by Christian Riley•Restored, by Marlane Quade Cook•Nameless and Named, by David M. Hoenig•Playing A Starring Role, by Paul Lubaczewski•And the Living is Easy, by Mike Chinn•The Prague Relic, by Paul StJohn Mackintosh•The Circle, by Matt Sullivan•Sanctuary, by John Linwood Grant•The Giving of Gifts, by Matt Neil Hill•The Santa Anna, by Jack Lothian•The Dread Fishermen, by Kevin Henry•Blind Vision, by Andrew Darlington•The Thirteenth Step, by William Tea•This Godless Apprenticeship, by Clint Smith•Waiting, by John W. Dennehy•Pouring Whiskey In My Soul, by Paul R. McNamee•True Blue, by Darrell Schweitzer•The Treadmill, by Rohit Sawant•The Veiled Isle, by W. D. CliftonPoetry•Gila King, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson•Necro-Meretrix, by Frederick J. Mayer•Grinning Moon, by Frederick J. Mayer•The Burning Man, by Russ Parkhurst•Silent Hours, by Russ Parkhurst•The Old White Crone, by Maxwell I. Gold

Throughout the length and breadth of the sun-bleached cow town of Mescal, Arizona, seethes an undercurrent of suppressed excitement. In front of the town's blacksmith shop a group of Mormon homesteaders gather about their potential leader, Webb Nichols, in grave discussion. In a lodge room the special meeting of the Magdalena Stockmen's Association, comprising the big cow outfits of the county, has turned into a deluge of hot words and very pointed accusations. Is the long conflict between the homesteaders and the big outfits about to flare into violence again?For years this particular part of Arizona has been a rustler's paradise. And as long as homesteaders like Webb Nichols and Shad Caney cover up for the rustlers, the notorious Steve Jennings among them, they're asking for trouble from the big cattlemen. The Association decides to bring matters to a head by calling in Clay Roberts, a lone wolfer stock-detective with a reputation for getting results."It don't seem like one man could make much hell for us,'' says Webb Nichols, but in that thought Webb, as he is soon to discover, couldn't be more wrong.Clay Roberts has a couple of strikes on him from the beginning in Deputy Sheriff Dufors, a weak and embittered tool of the homesteaders, and in Webb and Shad, whose bitter, unreasoning feud is carried on by their children during school hours. These youthful hatreds make life miserable for the pretty new teacher, Eudora Stoddard, who is startled one day to find herself sheltering the head of the rustlers, Steve Jennings.From then on matters get tougher by the minute. Men who should be seeing eye to eye regard one another with cold hostility, the grisly episode at Parley Scott's takes place, the rustlers move in on one of the big cowmen and Clay heads for the hills in deadly pursuit, only to find himself forced to save the life of the dangerous rustler he is hired to capture. And that is only the beginning of new trouble for the fearless stock-detective, the cattlemen, and pretty Eudora Stoddard, whom Clay had hoped to make his wife.

Lawyers are much in demand these days -- overworked and, as some would claim, overpriced. More and more people find themselves needing legal advice in such matters as making a will, buying a house, defending a suit for damages (or entering one), starting a business, securing one's rights as a consumer, obtaining a divorce. How is the gap to be bridged between the supply of lawyers and demand for services? One answer, growing in popularity everywhere, is the paralegal, also called the lawyer's assistant, legal assistant, paralegal assistant, or paralegal associate.

If you're working by day And cooking by night, Or your chores you would keep Both easy and light, If you like to eat well But you cook in a hurry, If you want to relax Without bother or worry, If you yearn to play bridge, Or the weather's too hot; Or you simply don't want To bend over a pot, You'll find that this book With occasional rhyme, Will make cooking pleasant, And help you save time!

A collection of Karl Marx's newspaper articles from the suppressed Rhenish Gazette and New Rhenish Gazette, examining the effects of the European insurrections of 1848, and the aftermath on German society.

LONE WOLF WITH A GUNWarbonnet was a boom town waiting to explode. There was money to be made here-big money-but not for McMahon. He was a manhunter, a bitter, proud man doing a lonely, dirty job-the last job-and the biggest.Frank O'Rourke tells the story of a lone wolf with a gun who crashed headlong into the bloody struggle for the vast range lands of the Kansas-Colorado territory. It is a story of courage and violence-torn from the history of a raw and lawless land.

Penny Parker starred in a series of 17 books written by Mildred A. Wirt Benson and published from 1939 through 1947. Penny was a high school sleuth who also occasionally moonlighted as a reporter for her father's newspaper. Benson favored Penny Parker over all the other books she wrote, including Nancy Drew. Her obituary quoted her as saying, "I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy is," Mrs. Benson said in 1993.

A thousand years after the apocalyptic Holy Wars banished them from Ananya, the gods have returned-massacring the Empress and the Ananyan royal family, stripping away the magic that sustains Ananya's empire, and leaving it exposed to invading neighbors and vengeful fey. Ketya, neglected daughter of Ananya's most powerful official, wakes in the arms of the dead Empress. Along with her father she is rescued by Sperrin, a famous soldier whose post-traumatic stress disorder was "treated" by removing memories of his wife and daughter-memories which have returned with the destruction of Ananya's magic. Ketya finds herself fleeing into the uncertain safety of the mountains where she and Sperrin hope to regroup with other survivors. Ketya's father holds the answers to what happened and whether Ananya's magic can be restored-but the disaster that happened on his watch has shattered his sanity, leaving his daughter and her rescuer to try and piece things together. Harried by creatures out of ancient history Ketya and Sperrin make their way toward a mountain stronghold where an Ananyan army still stands, besieged by fey who want to retake the mountains they lost in the Holy Wars. Amid a desperate battle they uncover the depths of betrayal that ravaged Ananya-a betrayal that can only be undone if they agree to escort the traitor to the land of the gods themselves.

On the pleasure boats of the Old Mississippi, passions ran high when men gambled for the favors of beautiful women -- and renegades carried off girls along with other loot.Disguised as a notorious outlaw, hot-blooded Dave Macdonough invaded the river rogues' hideout in a reckless attempt to destroy them. But his mission became an act of persona! vengeance when he met the lovely swamp water girl who was their captive mistress.

Aaron Burr was one of the most astounding and perplexing men in American history. A man who had lost the Presidency of the United States to Thomas Jefferson by only one vote in the House of Representartives, and who had himslef been Vice President, he nevertheless became notorious overnight by killing Alexander Hamilton in their famous New Jersey duel. But he went further. Burr, ever restless, ventured into the Midwest and West engaging in "strange doings" that included secret meetings on Blennerhassett Island and efforts to raise a private militia. Was he really anxious to establish himself as Emperor of Mexico? What were the motives and the ambitions of this curious and powerful man?

The Cubs of Den 2 face their biggest crisis after they are accused of vandalizing an old church. Dan admits that he and another Cub are responsible for accidentally breaking a window and offers to pay for the damage, but the caretaker, Old Terry, refuses to accept the money and states that they did thousands of dollars in damage to the building in addition to breaking the window. Dan and the other Cubs are angered, as they know they did not wreck the church. The owners of the church file a lawsuit against the organization for $20,000 in damages. Even worse, the boys' reputation is at stake as many people believe the false rumors. The Cubs feel disgraced and have no way of proving their innocence. The Cubs suspect that hooligan Pat Oswald and his gang are responsible for the damage to the church. Pat and his cohorts constantly harass the Cubs and make fun of them. Whenever the vandalism of the church is mentioned, Pat smirks but refuses to admit to anything. Finally, Pat has a change of heart and admits to his role in the misdeed. Pat and his friends resolve to become honest and loyal. They plan to create a Cub Scouts den of their own so that they can also be members of a great organization.

Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face by Mildred Wirt takes Dan Carter and his Cub Scout friends on an exciting adventure filled with mystery and discovery. When the scouts stumble upon a mysterious face carved into a rock formation during a camping trip, their curiosity leads them on a quest to uncover its origins and significance.As the Cub Scouts investigate the great carved face, they encounter clues that hint at ancient legends and hidden treasures. With Dan's leadership and the scouts' teamwork, they navigate through challenges and unravel secrets buried in history. Along the way, they learn valuable lessons about perseverance, friendship, and the thrill of exploration.Set against the backdrop of the great outdoors, this thrilling tale combines mystery and adventure, making Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face an engaging read for young adventurers eager for a new challenge.

A sporting goods store offers a prize of a complete archery set for the organization that puts on the best play. Den 1 and Den 2 plan to put on a play as a joint effort in hopes of winning the prize. The Cubs decide to put on a production of Robin Hood and receive permission from Mr. Kain, who works for the bank, to use a property known as the Haunted Castle as the setting for their production. All appears to be going well until the Cubs are accused by Mr. Kain of breaking a window and setting a fire. Mr. Kain orders them to pay for damages or leave the property.The Cubs have seen someone hiding in the bushes on the property, but since they have no proof, they pay Mr. Kain so that they may continue to work on the play. As the Cubs finish working on their play, they investigate the bank's property, hoping to meet the trespasser and prove their innocence of any wrongdoing. In time, the Cubs learn the identity of the trespasser and exonerate themselves. Additionally, they help a new friend become a Cub Scout.

Dan Carter and the Money Box by Mildred Wirt follows the adventurous Dan Carter and his Cub Scout friends as they stumble upon a mysterious old money box during one of their scouting activities. The discovery sets off a thrilling quest to uncover the origins and secrets of the box.As the Cub Scouts dive deeper into the mystery, they face challenges that test their problem-solving skills and teamwork. With Dan leading the way, they piece together clues that lead them on an exciting adventure filled with unexpected twists and turns. Along the way, they learn valuable lessons about honesty, friendship, and perseverance.Set in a world of intrigue and camaraderie, Dan Carter and the Money Box is a delightful story that captures the essence of scouting and the joy of uncovering secrets with friends. It's an engaging read for young adventurers and mystery enthusiasts alike.

Dan Carter and the other Den 2 Cubs enjoy having meetings at their cave near the river's shore. During a treasure hunt one evening, Dan and Brad discover a box containing a strange code which has a mysterious reference to Skeleton Island. Dan and Brad also discover a young boy nearby unconscious on the beach. The boy reveals his name as Jacques but refuses to give any additional information about himself. The Cubs take care of Jacques that night, but the boy disappears the next day. Later, the coded message is stolen as well. Dan and Brad learn of fur thieves in the area and wonder if there can be any connection to Skeleton Island after they see an unfamiliar boat signaling near the island.The Cubs visit Skeleton Island on a camping trip, and while hiking see Jacques in the caretaker's house. The Cubs speculate that Jacques may be a prisoner on the island. Through a strange turn of events, Dan discovers the identities of the fur thieves and is forced to help them steal another fur shipment.After several exciting adventures, Dan and the Cubs help bring the thieves to justice, discover Jacques' true identity, and learn the secret of Skeleton Island.